Comments on: Reimbursement backlash affecting vaccines http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting.html medical blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:57:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting.html/comment-page-1#comment-74582 Anonymous Sat, 05 May 2007 03:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting-vaccines.html#comment-74582 Why not just set your own price for the vaccine and bill the patient for the uncovered amount? Specifically exclude items like this from whatever contracts you have if necessary. Patients can vote with their feet, and are not denied the ability to obtain the vaccine. This is the American way. Why not just set your own price for the vaccine and bill the patient for the uncovered amount? Specifically exclude items like this from whatever contracts you have if necessary. Patients can vote with their feet, and are not denied the ability to obtain the vaccine. This is the American way.

]]> By: John J. Coupal http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting.html/comment-page-1#comment-74562 John J. Coupal Fri, 04 May 2007 16:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting-vaccines.html#comment-74562 Pharmacies have experience with storing vaccines and other pharmaceuticals requiring refrigeration.<br/><br/>Isn't it possible to arrange pick- up of the vaccine from a nearby pharmacy just before administration, similar to what Happy suggests? Pharmacies have experience with storing vaccines and other pharmaceuticals requiring refrigeration.

Isn’t it possible to arrange pick- up of the vaccine from a nearby pharmacy just before administration, similar to what Happy suggests?

]]> By: Happyman http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting.html/comment-page-1#comment-74541 Happyman Thu, 03 May 2007 23:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/reimbursement-backlash-affecting-vaccines.html#comment-74541 so true.<br/><br/>drop just ONE dose and you're out the "profit" for the next 60 doses. This is excluding, of course, costs for refridgeration, syringes, alcohol swabs, sharps disposal service, billing-associated fees, staff & physician time, and interest that would otherwise be earned in a bank account with $100,000 in it (the value of the vaccines currently stocked in our office fridge).<br/><br/>Oh, and the insurance to cover the vaccines in the fridge in of mechanical failure.<br/><br/>Perhaps the vaccines could just be written for, like any other medicine, and patients could pick them up from a pharmacy and bring into the office for administration. so true.

drop just ONE dose and you’re out the “profit” for the next 60 doses. This is excluding, of course, costs for refridgeration, syringes, alcohol swabs, sharps disposal service, billing-associated fees, staff & physician time, and interest that would otherwise be earned in a bank account with $100,000 in it (the value of the vaccines currently stocked in our office fridge).

Oh, and the insurance to cover the vaccines in the fridge in of mechanical failure.

Perhaps the vaccines could just be written for, like any other medicine, and patients could pick them up from a pharmacy and bring into the office for administration.

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